As this will be the last post, I want to thank everyone who commented, sent me notes, read, and contributed to sixintheworld.com. It’s time for our family to move to the next chapter. Please feel free to follow us on our next adventure at 200daysaway.com. There will only be 4 of us this time as…

Anne always hated Mother’s Day. She didn’t like the idea of it. “Why should we celebrate mother’s one day out of the year, isn’t it a 365 day job? We should celebrate it every day,” she would tell me. Today, I am glad it only comes once a year. For the last 2 years, I…

I am delinquent in posting about our trip to Japan on Sixintheworld. We had a wonderful trip, and I will put up a couple posts about it, but not today. It was a great trip, it meant a lot to have our family in motion again. We went to places we have never been, visited…

I have not updated the blog for the same reason Anne didn’t write much about her fight with cancer. She didn’t want to share bad news. Similarly, I don’t want to share my grief if I feel it isn’t going particularly well. On the eternal time clock I feel peace, and feel Anne is in…

6 months have passed. 6 months that I felt would never pass yet 6 months that passed in an instant. Time has never felt more uncertain. I feel as if I am a recovering stroke victim. It wasn’t ischemia in a vessel in my brain but a schism in the nexus of my soul which…

It has been 3 months since Anne passed away. The kids and I continue to have good and bad days. It feels as if the bad days are getting a little further apart, and the good days are less muted. I have thought about writing something on Sixintheworld, but I didn’t want to do it…

It has been two weeks and I would like to say that the pain is less, but the opposite continues to be true. I am afraid that will be the case for a little while and will be part of our family’s journey. Through the pain we were able to have 2 memorial services which…

I am saddened to say that at 10:30 today Anne passed away. It was a relief to see her free of the suffering she has been going through over the last 2 years but my heart and being is split in two as she goes on to a better place. I will write a much…

The words of a friend have been weighing heavily on me the last few days. We had breakfast during the middle of last week and he obviously asked about Anne and how she was doing. I shared and along with sharing how she was doing I told him I have had a very hard time…

I can’t believe I am writing this so soon. I think we knew it was a possibility because once you are in the cancer world you don’t ever really leave it, but at least you hope you will get some years between the battles. Unfortunately, in life, timing is not something we can always control.…

You know that friend you want to talk to but haven’t for years. As each year goes past, it becomes harder and harder to reach out. That is what has happened with this blog. I have wanted to write something for a while but haven’t because: we don’t have certainty, we don’t want to share…

It is hard to believe that is was only a year and 3 months ago that Anne was diagnosed with Cancer. It has been a long 15 months. The last 5 months have been exceptionally trying and tender. When Anne had her recurrence and was diagnosed with metastatic disease, our lives, which were already shaky…

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Sixintheworld is a family of six, ranging in age from 38 to 4, who embarked on an 11-month round the world adventure in August 2006. Our next 7-month adventure in 2015 is going to be chronicled at 200daysaway.com .